- K-pop Professionals Discuss AI's Role in the Industry at the 2023 MWM Conference 목차
As artificial intelligence (AI) technology continues to make waves in the K-pop industry, professionals gathered at the '2023 MWM Conference' to discuss its impact on various processes, including composition, performance, recording, arrangement, and distribution. The conference, hosted by the Korea Music Contents Association, took place at the Dragon City Convention Tower in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, and attracted over 300 attendees from domestic agencies, music distributors, and AI companies.
Participants at the event explored the numerous possibilities that AI technology presents to the K-pop industry. Yoo Won-young, Director of the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, highlighted the potential of AI in all aspects of the music industry. He predicted that AI could even surpass human composers in the future.
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Kyo-gu Lee, CEO and co-founder of Supertone, an AI audio company, shared his insights on the company's technology, which focuses on production rather than creation. He said, "The development of technology gives creators new inspiration, and I believe that art and technology are mutually complementary." Lee's vision for the future includes the creation of songs featuring the names of tens of thousands of fans.
Other speakers at the conference included Park Chan-jae, CEO of Enterarts, an AI content production company, who predicted that AI would become a creative tool akin to musical instruments for K-pop composers. Heo Won-gil, CEO of Forza Labs, an AI composition company, Kim Jun-ho, CEO of Juice, a start-up that makes AI arrangement technology, and Choi Bona, general manager of Sound Mouse Korea, which provides sound source monitoring services through audio recognition technology, also introduced various music business models utilizing AI.
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One of the hot topics discussed during the event was the issue of copyright, an essential aspect of AI learning and creation. Director Yoo Won-young predicted that the boundaries between plagiarism, sampling, and copyright would become increasingly blurred as AI technology continues to advance.
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Lauri Lechart, Legal Commissioner (CLO) of the International Music Industry Association (IFPI), emphasized the importance of protecting artists and their creations as AI supports the music creation process and aids in music recommendation and search. Lechart also noted that new technologies, such as AI, metabus, and non-fungible tokens (NFT), present both opportunities and challenges for the music industry.
